29.01.2018, 16:33, "Kevin Kofler" <[email protected]>: > Simon Hausmann wrote: >> In the light of that, I think it would be better to keep the LTS branches >> open longer and stop doing patch releases for minor releases that are not >> LTS. > > -1 from a distro packager perspective. LTS just does not fit together with > fast-moving distributions, and we really need those bugfix releases for the > branches we ship. > > Especially QtWebEngine requires those bugfix releases for security fixes, > and tracking LTS is not that great there because the base Chromium gets old > pretty quickly, and websites start complaining (e.g., Google already > complains about 5.9 being an outdated Chromium) or even stop working > altogether. The frequency of LTS releases has also so far been totally > insufficient to keep up with Chromium security fixes (see the huge amount of > time – almost a whole year! – between 5.6.2 and 5.6.3). > > I would rather see LTS canceled and more effort put into the current > releases, if having both is a problem.
Note that you can build newer QtWebEngine releases against LTS Qt > > Kevin Kofler > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
